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Dialogical Thought and Identity : Trans-Different Religiosity in Present Day Societies / Ephraim Meir.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110338317
  • 9783110338478
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 126 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • BD236 .M43 2013eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Elucidating Identity and Alterity -- The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy -- Chapter 2: “I-you” and “Eternal You” in the Thought of Martin Buber -- Chapter 3: Franz Rosenzweig’s Animated I or “Soul” -- Chapter 4: The I as “Homo Sympatheticus” in Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Chapter 5: Franz Fischer’s “Proflective” Thought on the I -- Chapter 6: Emmanuel Levinas’s “One-For-the-Other” -- Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations -- Chapter 7: The Non-Identical I -- Chapter 8: The Interpreted and Interpreting I -- Bibliography -- Index of Names
Summary: In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present day societies and offers a new view on identity around the concepts of self-transcendence, self-difference, and trans-difference. Subjectivity is seen as the concrete possibility of relating to an open identity, which receives and hosts alterity. Self-difference is the crown upon the I; it is the result of a dialogical life, a life of passing to the other. The religious I is perceived as in dialogue with secularity, with its own past and with other persons. It is suggested that with a dialogical approach one may discover what unites people in pluralist societies.

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Elucidating Identity and Alterity -- The Problem of Identity in Dialogical Philosophy -- Chapter 2: “I-you” and “Eternal You” in the Thought of Martin Buber -- Chapter 3: Franz Rosenzweig’s Animated I or “Soul” -- Chapter 4: The I as “Homo Sympatheticus” in Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Chapter 5: Franz Fischer’s “Proflective” Thought on the I -- Chapter 6: Emmanuel Levinas’s “One-For-the-Other” -- Self-Transcendence, Self-Difference, and Trans-Difference. Philosophical and Theological Considerations -- Chapter 7: The Non-Identical I -- Chapter 8: The Interpreted and Interpreting I -- Bibliography -- Index of Names

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In discussion with Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Franz Fischer and Emmanuel Levinas, Ephraim Meir outlines a novel conception of a selfhood that is grounded in dialogical thought. He focuses on the shaping of identity in present day societies and offers a new view on identity around the concepts of self-transcendence, self-difference, and trans-difference. Subjectivity is seen as the concrete possibility of relating to an open identity, which receives and hosts alterity. Self-difference is the crown upon the I; it is the result of a dialogical life, a life of passing to the other. The religious I is perceived as in dialogue with secularity, with its own past and with other persons. It is suggested that with a dialogical approach one may discover what unites people in pluralist societies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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